December 6-9 at Gay City
Constructing men takes WAR.
Photo Credit Chelsea Petrakis
In this multimedia extravaganza, the drag-huntress Victory Medusa will lead audiences in a fabulous faux-ritual to stalk “the Man.” This interactive drag performance explores male socialization all its messy ramifications from trans-feminine perspective. During the show audiences will be led through a series of warped childhood games designed to uncovered the violence at the core of male identity and explore how we can heal from the damage it reaps. Throughout these activities Victory Medusa will perform a few numbers intended to frame the games and broaden the possible meanings the audience can make of the activities they are participating in. These will include both lip-synced songs and monologues, as well as remixed videos of childhood cartoons like Avatar the Last Airbender and He-Man.
Photo Credit Alexander Lenzi of Amworld Media
The performance will help to create a “scaffolding of meaning” on which the audience can build their own understanding of male-violence that takes us beyond “men just need to feel their feelings.” Is maleness as an identity fundamentally based in violence? How might we separate maleness from violence? And if we cannot where does that lead us? How might we create imaginative terrains where traumatized beings, whose current state of existence is saturated with violence, can both heal and find connection?
This project was partially funded by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and generous donors.
